citreous
/ˈsɪtɹɪəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of the colour of citron or a citrus fruit; yellowish.
Example Sentences
- "And sitting on the porch one night at La Hacienda, reading by generator light, I was hardly even tempted when bats came vectoring down – fruit bats, maybe – called by the lamp's citreous glow in which, turning, I could see my rod fly against the rail, its golden reel glittering like something electrical, or something alive…."
- "The glow was there now, a citreous smudge on the hardpacked earth below him and to his left."
Etymology
From Latin citreus.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈsɪtɹɪəs/
Inflected Forms
more citreous (comparative)
most citreous (superlative)